Dark Cabal of Neoconservatives Take Over Global Finance - This Should be Good
If I was prone to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, this would be like Christmas:
President Bush on Wednesday selected Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, a magnet for controversy as one of the leading architects of the Iraq war, as his choice for World Bank president. The decision threatened to set off a bitter fight on the World Bank board, which must sign off on Washington's choice, at a time when Bush has said improving trans-Atlantic relations and America's image in the Arab world will be a top priority.
Mere Rhetoric is now taking bets as to which happens first:
(1) Juan Cole darkly talks about the relationship between the "neo-conservative Paul Wolfowitz" and international banking
(2) Paul Krugman goes on a long and incoherent tyrant about the Bush administration's attempts to "inflame the Arab street" through "the Wolfowitz appointment"?
(3) The heads of at least two Democratic Underground trolls spontaneously explode?
And what will Wolfowitz have done to bring done such disapprobation upon himself:
Wolfowitz is a deeply controversial figure in Europe because of his role in designing and promoting the Iraq war. He has also been a frequent target of criticism from congressional Democrats for what they called his "rosy" assessments of military operations and reconstruction in Iraq...
Several international groups including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and ActionAid called Wolfowitz a bad choice. Greenpeace expressed concern that Wolfowitz would "put U.S. and oil industry interests" ahead of development.
Ted Kennedy hysterics aside, I'm not sure why insisting over and over again last year that elections in Iraq would turn out well is anything but evidence of precience. And everyone with a brain is unequivocal that the man is a genius and a humanitarian. I'll spoil the surprise: opposition to Wolfowitz is nothing more or less than vulgar anti-Semitism.
President Bush on Wednesday selected Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, a magnet for controversy as one of the leading architects of the Iraq war, as his choice for World Bank president. The decision threatened to set off a bitter fight on the World Bank board, which must sign off on Washington's choice, at a time when Bush has said improving trans-Atlantic relations and America's image in the Arab world will be a top priority.
Mere Rhetoric is now taking bets as to which happens first:
(1) Juan Cole darkly talks about the relationship between the "neo-conservative Paul Wolfowitz" and international banking
(2) Paul Krugman goes on a long and incoherent tyrant about the Bush administration's attempts to "inflame the Arab street" through "the Wolfowitz appointment"?
(3) The heads of at least two Democratic Underground trolls spontaneously explode?
And what will Wolfowitz have done to bring done such disapprobation upon himself:
Wolfowitz is a deeply controversial figure in Europe because of his role in designing and promoting the Iraq war. He has also been a frequent target of criticism from congressional Democrats for what they called his "rosy" assessments of military operations and reconstruction in Iraq...
Several international groups including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and ActionAid called Wolfowitz a bad choice. Greenpeace expressed concern that Wolfowitz would "put U.S. and oil industry interests" ahead of development.
Ted Kennedy hysterics aside, I'm not sure why insisting over and over again last year that elections in Iraq would turn out well is anything but evidence of precience. And everyone with a brain is unequivocal that the man is a genius and a humanitarian. I'll spoil the surprise: opposition to Wolfowitz is nothing more or less than vulgar anti-Semitism.
